{"id":78256,"date":"2025-11-06T14:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78256"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:00:46","slug":"u-s-lawmaker-backs-trump-promises-report-on-christian-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/06\/u-s-lawmaker-backs-trump-promises-report-on-christian-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Lawmaker Backs Trump, Promises Report on Christian Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A U.S. congressman has backed former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims of large-scale killings of Christians in Nigeria, announcing that a detailed report on the issue will soon be released.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker said the forthcoming report would provide new evidence of what he described as \u201creligious persecution of Christians\u201d in Nigeria, an assertion that could heighten diplomatic tension between Washington and Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s government has repeatedly denied such allegations, insisting that insecurity affects citizens across religious and ethnic lines.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. legislator urged Abuja to cooperate with investigators and provide verifiable data on violent incidents, stressing the need for transparency.<\/p>\n<p>The move is expected to draw renewed global attention to Nigeria\u2019s human rights record and may influence future U.S. policy toward the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; A U.S. congressman has backed former President Donald Trump\u2019s claims of large-scale killings of Christians in Nigeria, announcing that a detailed report on the issue will soon be released. The lawmaker said the forthcoming report would provide new evidence of what he described as \u201creligious persecution of Christians\u201d in Nigeria, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78258,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78256\/revisions\/78258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}